The latest addition to my website is César Aira‘s El presidente [The President] The eponymous president (never named) is president of Argentina. He seems to live an entirely solitary life in the Casa Rosada – unmarried with seemingly no contact with staff/colleagues. He goes out at night wandering the streets and is not recognised though … Read more
The latest addition to my website isHaruki Murakami‘s とその不確かな (The City and Its Uncertain Walls). Our unnamed seventeen year old loner hero meets a sixteen year loner girl. She insists that she is just a shadow and her real self is in a strange city which she describes. Late she will disappear and he reluctantly … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Solvej Balle‘s Om udregning af rumfang 1 (On The Calculation Of Volume 2). It follows directly on from the first volume , continuing the story of Tara Selter, the antiquarian book dealer permanently stuck on 18 November. She had tried returning to Paris 365 days after the first … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Solvej Balle‘s (On The Calculation Of Volume 1 Tara Selter and her husband Thomas live in the South of France and run an antiquarian book business from their home. On 17 November Tara travels to Paris to buy books. She spends the night in a hotel. Apart from … Read more
The latest addition to my website isSamantha Harvey‘s Orbital. The novel is set entirely on the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth (sixteen times a day), with a multinational (US, UK Italy Japan, Russia) crew of six. But don’t let that put you off, as it won the 2024 Booker Prize and deservedly … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Maylis de Kerangal‘s Corniche Kennedy [Kennedy Corniche]. The novel is set in Marseilles, primarily on a platform overlooking Keenedy Corniche and the sea. A group of teenagers go there to sunbathe and hang out but also to jump from various high ledges into the sea. They are joined … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Radwa Ashour‘s ثلاثية غرناطة (Granada Trilogy). This tells the story of an extended Arab family who, at the beginning of the book are living in Granada from the fall of Granada in 1492 to the expulsion of the Arabs just over a century later. At the beginning there … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Coe‘s The Proof of My Innocence.A blogger investigating right-wing plotting attends a right-wing conference the week LizTruss is appointed British Prime Minister and is brutally murdered at the conference. His adopted daughter and the daughter of one of his friends investigate and uncover dirty right-wing dealings, a … Read more